TURKISH REVERSES.
(Received Juno 10th, 12.30 a.m.) ROME, June 9. The l-4th Battalion, with artillery and cavalry, quitted Tangier and seized the Zanzur Oasis after driving the Turks from the outhills southward at tho point of fclie bnyonet. Aftor a sharp fight on tho western edge of tho oasis, the Turks were expelled and pursued for five hours. An engagement is reported at Horns. Five hundred Turks attacked the Mergheb redoubts, but were subjected to a heavy r.flo and artillery fire, and were routed, sustaining considerable losses.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14377, 10 June 1912, Page 7
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